Chris Auman: guitar, vocals Reg Shrader: guitar Dan Kiss: bass Chris Negrete: drums
Influences
Soft Boys, The Clash, Wipers, The Fall, Radio Birdman, Robyn Hitchcock, XTC, Sparks, Flaming Lips, SST, Sonic Youth, Pixies, Cramps, The Replacements, Television, GBV, Wire, Gang of Four, Nirvana, Dead Kennedys, DEVO, Chicago (the city). Anything. Everything.
Soft
Targets have a new full-length CD out now. "We Hate You Soft Targets?" is a 12-song CD recorded by Kris Poulin at O.G.D.M.U. in Logan Square (Chicago). The venerable zine Roctober says: "As soft as steel and as convenient and economical as Target this Chicago treasure better not keep getting buried by pirates . . . we need them. Albums include guitar playing, singing, bass thumping, and drumming; all of which are very good."Buy it @ iTunes
With their debut EP, Whatever Happened to Soft Targets? Chicago's Soft
Targets deliver an "icy-cool postpunk sound halfway between the Only Ones and Joy Division" (Sharp Darts, Chicago Reader). These five songs were recorded at Electrical Studios with engineer Kris Poulin.Buy
it @ iTunes
Tickets are now on sale for John Waters, Sandra Bernhard, the FIXX and 100 other artists!!! You can purchase tickets by visiting www. unicityfestival. com . We hope to see you there!
Unicity Performing Arts Festival has just signed The FIXX, Sandra Bernhard and John Waters! Tickets go on sale on June 7th at 10 AM and will be available from www. unicityfestival. com .
SMILEY FACE SHOW Saturday, May 17th, 9:30pm Westside Eclectic Theatre (Entrance in alley behind food court) 1323 3rd Street Promenade Santa Monica, CA 90401
JEN KIRKMAN headlines, MATT CHAMPAGNE hosts, LINDSAY SAMPLE plays songs. Also see stand-up and new videos by GARY THE IMPALER, SAM FELS, JULIE COHEN and ALAN LEBETKIN this Saturday only in Santa Monica!
FREE BEER! Free candy! Free stuffed animals! ALL AGES! FOR REAL!
This will be our first reviewed show, so we're pulling out all the stops! Plus the other bands we're playing with are awesome! It will be very strange, it will be very anti-hork-mangler-esque and it will also very prevent genital gangrene...
I love the friendly, customer satisfactory service that I receive EVERY time that I go to your store... but how the heck do you plan on topping Wal-Mart?
-- DTU Fermented Sloths
(P.S. - You are truly beautiful... truly delicate. You... are a flower.)
Issue #5 features interviews and music from Slow Down Tallahassee, The Chiara Ls, The Hair, Atoness, Rotary Ten, Hands & Knees, Dave Woodcock and many more.
Get it in the following shops:
Rough Trade, London Pure Groove, London Jacks Records, Sheffield Forever Changes, Sheffield Record Collector, Sheffield Action Records, Preston Jumbo, Leeds Piccadilly, Manchester
They're doing shows at Betty's?!?! Wow. Despite advice to the contrary, I do, in fact, fear the Reaper. I mean, I'm like, really scared. About the Reaper, that is. Have a good show. Peege
